the dubble budday party

just some pictures from the crazy dubble budday at patan dhoka last week. shanta and rajani's. it was a nearly girls' night out.. with a lot of heart and soul warming apple muld wine.. great mediterrenean cuisine cooked up by milan, a near absence of males who preferred to stay in the sidelines and watch priya trying to teach everyone some snazzy dance steps to the tune of 'my desi girl' that everybody wanted to belief was actually 'madheshi girl' .. and last but not the least, a crazily decorated but yummy cake to add icing to cake, so to say!

himal ho ki thatta ho!

1 november. we just decided to go to kot and asked amrit bhai (gurung) if he'd like to come along. he came.. and his initial reaction at seeing the panorama of kathmandu valley (mountains were not too visible then!) is evident in his gesture!

... paet ta yatti kai bharyo...

..as the afternoon wore on and the breeze picked up, the valley became clearer and the himalaya also started shedding their cloud cover...



... clouds provided plenty of romantic light and shade possibilities...

the pink twilight panorama of the hills to the south-west of the valley...

crescent moon tagged by venus.. on their way to the horizon...

baba tries to catch some activity in the runway

what a luxury.. checking email in the terrace as the lights flicker in the valley below...

...next morning.. started out with a hazy eastern horizon...

... misty lubhu...

and wispy multi-layered hills...

.. then as the eastern sky lights up a bit more...

.. himalchuli catches the morning light..

...as does ganesh himal...

...and ganchhempo..

... the light gets lighter...

... and soon the fog starts lifting from the valley floor too... first sunakothi...

... and then baandey gaon too..

as the morning wore on.. the himal started sparkling like silver... langtang in all her glory

and himalchuli...




















... and ganesh himal...

... from langtang to jugal himal...

ganesh himal

even annapurna visible, even though slightly hazy...

a stitched on panorama.. stretching on from annapurna in the west to cho oyu in the east..


a dewy web amidst fern...

baba tries to get a glimpse of the noisy...





















laampuchhrey


he next turns his binoculars to birds of the different sort....

...airplanes!!!


















...then of course it was time to come down from paradise.. on the other side of the kot hills.. in the bistachhaap valley... a tapestry of harvest-time colours